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As computer networking continues to grow into its role as a core infrastructure of our world, our lab believes that this maturing discipline has much to learn from the realm of civil engineering. Namely, we believe that the computer networking discipline should follow the following key guidelines from civil engineering ethics:

Mission-critical voice (MCV) communications systems are employed by public safety organizations, law enforcement, emergency medical services, and others. This project aims to evaluate the impact of impairments such as background noise, delay, and communication errors on the intelligibility of MCV, i.e., the ability of first responders to understand the communication. We have designed and built a MCV testbed and conduct human subject studies with first-responder volunteers.